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Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be the second homecoming of the season for Las Vegas native Noah Gragson.

He cut his racing teeth on the same grounds as Kyle Busch Motorsports’ (KBM) owner Kyle Busch, getting his start at the age of 13 in the Bandoleros division at The Bullring – a 0.375-mile paved oval at Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway. With two races remaining in the Round of 8, the 20-year-old driver enters Friday night’s contest fourth on the Truck Series Playoff grid – 24 points above the cutoff line for advancing to the Round of 6.-KBM

For the first time since his 2006 rookie season, Denny Hamlin failed to win a race on the Cup circuit.

Hamlin finished second twice this season. Both of those came in the final races of the season at Dover and Martinsville during the playoffs. Hamlin was able to score eight top-fives, which made him eighth-best in that regard.

Jimmie Johnson did not have the type of season he wanted in 2018, but he ended the year with four consecutive top-15s to gather a little momentum for next season.

Johnson earned four consecutive top-15s only three times during the season. He was never able to string five such finishes together and that kept him from being a good value. For the first time since his rookie season, he went winless.

With 26, Joey Logano had the third-best record of top-10s in 2018 behind Kevin Harvick (29) and Kyle Busch (28).

Logano's consistency kept him in the hunt for the championship until the playoffs began, but he did not win enough races in the regular season to make him one of the favorites. He was also lacking somewhat in top-fives with 13.

Kurt Busch finished 10th in the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, which was his 13th top-10 in the last 18 races of the season (72.2%).

In that same span of races, Busch scored only three top fives, however. He was consistently a very goo - but not great - starter. His handicap for 2019 is uncertain because we do not know where he is going to land.

Fantasy owners will be forgiven if they did not have him on the radar screen. He had not scored a top-10 on this track in the past three years and he qualified only 26th on Friday. Those positive place-differential points added to his total made him one of the best values.

That made him best in class. That was his fourth result of sixth or better in the last five races of the season. He may not have qualified for the Championship 4, but he was one of the best values in the closing races.

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